*In computing the decennial rate of increase the varying lengths of the intercensal periods have been taken into account, and the rates for the periods 1831-1841 and 1841-1851 have been further corrected by the exclusion of the Army, Navy, and Merchant Service from the population for 1841, and of the persons on board vessels from the population for 1851.

In computing the proportion of females to males, 1801-1831, the following estimate of the numbers of men in the Army, Navy, and Merchant Service at home has been adopted: